My sweet Pups!

Sunday, August 26, 2012

On August 1st our oldest daughter left to start her senior year at Baylor University, this past Friday we took our son to SFA to start his freshman year. We are now official empty nesters. And while some dream of a quiet house, for me it's too quiet. I have been a stay at home mom their entire lives and now I find myself wondering what's next? I do enjoy spending time with Mr. C and I know we will enjoy time together it just seems so quiet in this house. So please fellow blogger say a little prayer for me that I won't go nuts and that I will find my way on this new journey! So off the pity party and onto more fun things. Below you will find three projects that I did one weekend to show how you can really change the look with just a little paint and glaze.

This first project was a lage bamboo bowl that I bought at Target years ago. It was really marked down to I bought it, but once I got it home it had a tad too much orange in it to it went in the closet. When I finally pulled it out I decided why not paint it.

Here it is with a coat of white paint..still pretty boring!!

Added a little glaze and it came to life!

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Add some distressing

Seal it and its ready to go. Now it has a home on the family room table full of old photos. My family loves sifting through them as well as our guests and I am always switching them out.

Found this bird statue at hallmark over the holidays, it was pretty with the gold leaf but after the holidays, I was ready for the gold to go. So painted him white, added the glaze..and now he is out year round!

And last but not least, this gold bowl, I scored at a yard sale for a buck. Its nice and heavy and I loved the detail..just not the gold!

Can you guess where we are going? White paint..

And some glaze..see how the details just pop!

Of course my horsedog Sammie had to be in the pic! lol Anyway what didn't work now does. All with a little paint and glaze!

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Back in March 2011 I made my first message chalkboard. I was so excited because it killed three birds with one stone. It got a frame out of my garage, it covered the lovely hole in the wall after we removed the 1970's intercom and it gave me a great place to write messages and have a grocery list! At the time I thought it was the perfect size measuring 23.5 x 27.5..but I was wrong!

I told my family I wanted something bigger, they were all opposed to anything bigger on the wall. But while shopping at Hobby Lobby one day I found a large mirror in the 80% area, it was a black frame and the mirror was cracked. You can guess.it came home with me! The mirror was removed, the black frame was primed and painted linen white and than I glazed the frame in a coffee glaze. The inner beading on the fame I did a lite dry brush stroke of the glaze and wiped lots of it off. ﻿

While the family like the frame, they still are said it was too big for the wall. I stood my ground and we cut and painted out a chalkboard.

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I love how the white pops on the inner moulding.

And here it is on the wall! Its a huge 31.5 x 43.5, and guess what after the fam saw it on the wall they all loved it! And you would be proud I never said "I told you so" well ok..just once! LOL I love it!! It is perfect, has plenty of room for everything I need.
So sometimes ladies..Bigger is Better!!!

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And you might wonder what happened to the smaller one..well it was my first and I could not get rid of it so it hangs proudly in the laundry room and is perfect there!!